Race of Inequality

Heard about 'Inequality of races' but the above picture would be one of the opposite.. :) Once the race starts, would the homo sapien run in the opposite direction?

Tamil Cine Quiz - 7

This quiz again based only on Tamil songs.

1) This famous singer has acted in a number of movies too. In one movie (A) in which he acted as the hero's father, he rendered his voice to the hero in a song B. Interestingly, in a song (C) in which he appears along with the hero, the female singer is his real-life daughter. Who is the famous singer, what is the movie A and what are the songs B and C?

2) In a movie (D) for which the music director and the producer were the same as that for movie A, he acted as the heroine's father. In that movie, he rendered voice to the two guys who are in love with the heroine in a song E. What are the movie D and the song E?

3) Another movie (F) - same music director + producer combo and the singer this time acted as the hero's father. He appears in a song (G) along with the hero, and renders his voice for the hero but his part in the song is rendered by a singer from the North (H). What are the movie F and song G and who was the singer H, who to the best of my knowledge, is the only singer to have rendered his voice to the famous singer?

4) In a movie (I) released in the same year as the movie D (with the same music director), the hero of movie A appeared on a double role. There was a duet in the film involving both the roles of the hero and the two heroines, for which the credit was given to only one pair of male and female singers. In real, another pair of male and female singers had sung the song from the second charanam (stanza) onwards. Who are the four (two male and two female) singers who rendered their voices for the song?

5) In cricket, we have seen one bowler completing the over of another bowler if he is injured in the middle of an over and is unable to bowl. In a movie released in 2005, there is a superb duet, which is meant for the hero and heroine in the movie. In fact, disappointingly, that song wasn't picutirized at all. In that song, just after the second charanam begins, one female playback singer abruptly takes over from the other in the middle of a line and goes on to complete the song. What are the movie, and the song and who are the two female playback singers? (Clues: The producer of the movie has been producing movies for over 20 years and his son debuted as director in 2008. The hero of the 2005 movie is the son of a famous multi-faceted actor-director and his performance in the movie was so unlike him. The villain in the movie acted as the villain in a famous tamil movie released in the same year and in a recent hindi movie with the same name).

P.S.: Comments are moderated considering the top-secret nature of this quiz.

Kanavey vaazhva?

I wrote about not being able to find a suitable equivalent of ‘missing’ in tamil. Now that a word ‘mizhakkiren’ has been coined, I used it for a kavithai. :)

உன்னை ரசிக்கிறேன் - மனதில்

உன்னுடம் சிரிக்கிறேன் - நினைவில்

உன்னைக் கொஞ்சுகிறேன் - இதயத்தில்

குழந்தையாய் மாறுகிறேன் - கையினில்

உனக்கோர் ஆசை முத்தம் - கன்னத்தில்

இதழின் மென்மையை உணர்கிறேன் - காற்றோடு

இதமாய் அணைத்துக்கொள்கிறேன் - நெஞ்சோடு

மிதமான வெப்பம் - மனதோடு

சுகமான ஸ்பரிசம் - உடலோடு

உன் தாக்கத்தைக் காண்கிறேன் - என்னோடு

நீ என்னுடன் வாழும் ஒவ்வொரு கணத்தையும்

நினைவிலேயே கண்டு ரசிக்கிறேன்

உணர்விலேயே கண்டு உருகுகிறேன்

கண்ணைத் திறந்து தேடுகிறேன்

அருகில் நீயில்லை மிழக்கிறேன்

கையோடு கை கோர்த்து

கண்ணோடு கண் கலந்து

ஊனோடு ஊனும்

உயிரோடு உயிரும்

சிரிப்போடு சிரிப்பும்

உதட்டோடு உதடும்

நினைவோடு நினைவும்

இரண்டறக் கலந்து

ஒன்றாக கூடும் வாழ்வு

கனவே வாழ்வா?

In Thanglish:

Unnai rasikkiren - manathil
unnudan sirikkiren - ninaivil
unnai konjukiren - idhayathil
kuzhnadhaiyai marugiren - kaiyinil
unakkor aasai mutham – kannathil

idhazhin menmaiyai unarkiren - kaatrodu
idhamai anaithukolgiren - nenjodu
midhamana veppam - manathodu
sugamana sparism - udalodu
un thaakkathai kaangiren – ennodu

nee ennudan vaazhum ovvoru kaNathaiyum
ninaivileye kandu rasikkiren
uNarvileye kandu urugukiren
kannai thirandhu thedukiren
arugil neeyillai mizhakkiren

kaiyodu kai serthu
kannodu kan kalandhu
oonodu oonum
uyirodu uyirum
sirippodu sirippum
udhattodu udhadum
ninaivodu ninaivum
irandara kalandhu
ondraaga koodum vaazhvu
kanavey vazhva?

HNY! How r u?

Happy new year to you all !! :) In the new year, something to tickle your ribs.. I talked to a few celebrities yesterday and asked how they were. This is the reply I got from them:

Aishwarya: Hmmm.. u know, the Indian tradition has always made me a good person.. so I am good 

AR Rahman: yellam iraivan ... (YAWN)

P.C. Sriram: naan nethu nalla irundhen.. night temp check ellam pannenn.. ippo nalla irukkenn..

Vijay: simply “Hmmmm...”

Director Seeman: Azhagu Tamil-il "Neenga eppadi irukkireergal" nu kekkruadhai vittuttu ippadi aangilathule kekkureengale... gnayama? Ange ilankaiyil en thambigaLum thangaigaLum avadhi-p-pattukkondirukkumbodhu naan eppadi nandraga irukka mudiyum?

Goundamani: Dho paruda kekka vandhuttaan.. naan eppadi irundha unakkennada naaye?

Senthil: ANNey...nan nalla irrukenne..

Kamal: Naan nalla irukkennudhaan ninaikkiren.. aana naan nalla illennu yaaravadhu ninaicha avanga ninaikkiraangannu naan kavalaippatta naan nalla irukka mudiyathu

Surya: Naan idhai solliyE Aganum.. nallarukkEn..

Vijaya T Rajender: Muslims-ku allah irukkaru.. Kadaiyile kalla irukkudhu.. bottle fulla irukkudhu.. naan nalla irukken.. en varisu Simbhu-vum Silambaattam aadi nallaa irukkan

Loud mouthed Idiot Santhanam: dei.. pannadai.. nee eppadi irukkennu nana kettanada.. pinne enda viLakkeNNai mAdhiri enkitte kekkura?

Sivakumar: Amma.. naan rommmmba nalla irukkemmmaaaa..

Gaptun: Tamilnaattule 2,37,339 kudumbanga innaikku kaalaiyile kudikka kanji illama irukkanga.. 1,78,536 peru oru vElai soru kooda illama irukkanga.. 8,73,983 peru velai illama irukkanga.. idhai kettuttu naan eppadi nalla irukkamudiyum? Enn, neengalum nalla irukka mudiyuma? *Aanghh*

Suhasini: Naan ponnu-ngirathaale naan nalla irukkeno illaiyO-nnu doubt-le neenga ippadi oru kelvi kekkureenga.. adhunale enakku unga kElvi pidikkale...

Shreya: Naan nalla irukkudhu

Grand master GS Pradeep: Naan nalla irukkanga

Rajni: ennai vaazha vaitha dheivangalaana Tamil makkal ungaloda dhayavaley naan romba nalla irukken...

Vairamuthu: Kaalaiyil ezhum sooriyanai keLungal; kaalgaLai nanaikkum alaigaLai keLungal; kathiravanai maraikkum malaiyai keLungal.. avai sollum.. naan nandraga irukkiren endru..